• Cover tile for podcast title 'Commons Conversations Podcast'. There is an icon of a yellow microphone and yellow waves on the top and bottom of cover tile. There is a profile photo of the person featured in the podcast epidsode. This one features Ned Howey and Hannah O'Rourke. Text reads 'AI Technologies

    AI Technologies, Campaigning and Social Change (Commons Conversations Podcasts)

    Commons Conversations Podcast about the role AI can play in supporting campaigners with messaging, outreach & other opportunities.

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    Innovative Tech for Social Justice Causes: Resources from Democracy Labs

    Democracy Labs applies innovative tech to social justice and voting rights causes. Here is a list of tech ideas for campaigners & organizers.

  • The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance

    A book about how small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.

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    Creative Activism: Hologram Protest

    The practicalities and possibilities of using holograms to challenge and subvert anti-protest laws are explored in this case study from Spain.

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    TED talk: Fight Injustice with Raw Video

    Activist Peter Gabriel shares his motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS & tells stories of citizen journalists.

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    TED talk: What new power looks like

    We can see the power of distributed, crowd-sourced business models every day โ€” witness Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb. But veteran online activist Jeremy Heimans asks: When does that kind of “new power” start to work in politics? His surprising answer: Sooner than you think. Itโ€™s a bold argument about the future of politics and power; watch…

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    7 tips for Facebook Risk Management

    Facebook is a vital organising and networking tool but presents risks for activists. Digital security can seem overwhelming but we can all get better at it. There are organisations who have done a great job of breaking the information down and giving you support to improve your practices. Start with these 7 tips.

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    Tools for More Secure Activism

    CounterAct encourages the progressive and radical movements on the Australian continent to get better at digital privacy and security. Security culture is simply a set of practices that limits the ability for government or opponents to find out more information about you and interfere with or monitor your group. Weโ€™ve given you some tools to…

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    Building 21st Century Movements

    Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Founder and former Executive Director of SumofUs, at Progress 2015 with a series of movement case studies challenging us to be technological innovators and to bring our social change work to the cutting edge of the current century.

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